Below we bring together information about community members seeking services from Network2Work and from the United Way’s child care coordinated enrollment system to better understand the scale of community needs.
We also show population-level estimates among a subset of the regional population that aligns with service-seekers. These estimates are derived from the 2019-2023 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata samples for the region.1 These population benchmarks provide some context against which to understand the needs of service-seekers and speak to the larger scope of unmet needs within the region.
Because Network2work and United Way’s Go2Grow serve different populations, we provide population benchmarks for both.
Both Network2Work and United Way’s Go2Grow serve residents beyond the localities shown here. However, the intake data was restricted to residents of Albemarle, Charlottesville, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, and Nelson.
There is no local benchmark data on the number or percent of residents who have been impacted by carcereal systems.
Only the United Way intake survey includes any notable number of residents who primarily speak a language other than English at home.
By definition, child-care seekers have young children at home.
The population benchmark was defined as families with a child under the age of 6 living at home.
By definition, the United Way child-care seekers all need support finding and affording child care. Only responses from Network2Work job-seekers are shown here. There is no local comparable population benchmark available.
Income data from United Way’s child-care seekers was inconsistently available. Thus, it is not used here.
Job seekers with unstable housing indicated that they either needed to find another place to live in the next 14 days, 1 month, or 3 months or that they neither rent nor own their current residence but instead jump from couch to couch, live in a hotel, are staying in an emergency shelter, or live in a place not meant for housing (e.g., a car).
Child-care seekers with unstable housing indicated that they are currently living in temporary or transitional housing, are currently experiencing homelessness, or live in a campground, motel, or shelter. Additionally, child-care seekers who did not report currently unstable housing but indicated having moved at least twice in more than one year or more than twice in three years are identified as experiencing prior instability or frequent movement.
Approximately identical measures are not available in the population benchmark data. Instead, related measures are shown: the percent who have moved within the last year, or not moved; the percent who’s households are overcrowded (with more than two people per bedroom or more than one person per rooms overall), or not overcrowded; and the percent who are severely housing burdened (pay more than 50% of income on shelter), housing burdened (pay between 30% and 50% of income on shelter), and not housing burdened.
Approximately identical measures are not available in the population benchmark data. Instead, related measures are shown: the percent who have moved within the last year, or not moved; the percent who’s households are overcrowded (with more than two people per bedroom or more than one person per rooms overall), or not overcrowded; and the percent who are severely housing burdened (pay more than 50% of income on shelter), housing burdened (pay between 30% and 50% of income on shelter), and not housing burdened.
Job seekers who indicated that they need help getting to work, plan to walk, or whose ride may be unreliable are identified as not having reliable transportation; those who indicated they have car access but the car would not pass inspection or was not registered are identified as having car access that isn’t reliable or registered; those who indicated having a very reliable ride, having reliable car access with up-to-date inspections and registrations, or who plan to take the bus are identified as not having transportation needs.
Only child-care seekers who answered they did not have reliable transportation are identified as not having reliable transportation. Child-care seekers were also asked if transportation or working hours posed barriers in getting their child to school.
Approximately identical measures are not available in the population benchmark data. Instead, related measures are shown: the percent of households with access to at least one car, or not; the percent of workers who commute to work in their own car, in a carpool, by public transportation, or by other means.
Approximately identical measures are not available in the population benchmark data. Instead, related measures are shown: the percent of households with access to at least one car, or not; the percent of workers who commute to work in their own car, in a carpool, by public transportation, or by other means.
The Public Use Microdata Areas for the greater Charlottesville region include respondents from Albemarle, Charlottesville, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, and Nelson.↩︎
The wage range is based on the 99th percentile value to minimize outliers.↩︎
The benchmark population based on these criteria make up 36% of the regional population.↩︎
The family income range is based on the 97.5th percentile value to minimize outliers.↩︎
The benchmark population based on these criteria make up 6% of the regional households.↩︎